Having moved back to Romania, I decided I would need a place to live in, ideally
to buy. So we started looking online for various places, we went to see a lot of
them. Lots of work, especially footwork. But, being the data nerd that I am, I
wanted to get smart about it and analyze the market.

For that, I needed data. For data, I turned to scraping. For scraping, I turned
to Scrapy. While I did write a scraper 5 years
ago, I didn't want to reinvent
the wheel yet again, so I turned to Scrapy because it's a well-known, much
used scraping framework in …continue.